Word: irvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irvin, mellow, good-natured, immune to the deliberate insanity of the regular staff, drew the first New Yorker cover ("Mr. Eustace Tilley" in a high hat, high stock, with a monocle up to a butterfly), passes on every drawing the magazine uses, scanning some 1,000 pictures every Tuesday afternoon. Scale of prices to artists: $10 for a one-column spot without caption, $200 and up for a full page or cover...
...public eye. Aboard the Houston he had only his two young sons Franklin Jr. and John, Rudolph Forster, chief White House clerk, Richard Jervis, chief of the White House Secret Service, his Bodyguardsman Gus Gennerich, his Physician Commander Ross T. Mclntire, his Negro Valet Irvin McDuffy, a sack of mail, a special library of 300 books, his seven-foot bed in the Admiral's suite. The entire Press and Public were represented by Associated Pressman Francis M. Stevenson, United Pressman Frederick A. Storm and Universal Serviceman Edward L. Roddan who trailed two miles behind in the Gilmer. Two additional...
...Teagle over supporting the Administration's oil policy. To the new Communications Commission he named Eugene O. Sykes and Thad H. Brown, Chairman and Vice Chairman of the now defunct Federal Radio Commission, and added Paul Walker (Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner). Norman Case (onetime Governor of Rhode Island), Irvin Stuart (State Department radio expert). George Henry Payne (journalist). Hampson Gary (Wilson's Minister to Switzerland). The President also appointed the Securities & Exchange Commission, three labor boards and picked William Augustus Ayres, longtime Democratic Representative from Wichita, Kans. to succeed James M. Landis on the Federal Trade Commission...
...last twelve-month had many a scrap but until last week he never met adversaries who could and would match him invective for invective. As in the automobile labor fracas, he had two adversaries to beat into agreement: 1) the steelmasters headed by Eugene Grace (Bethlehem), William Archibald Irvin (U. S. Steel) and Leopold E. Block (Inland); and 2) Labormaster Michael Francis Tighe, president of Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, an A. F. of L. affiliate. The issue was simple: should the Amalgamated get control of all steel labor...
Sophomore Theodore Roosevelt III, grandson of the 26th President, as a chorus girl; Junior Irvin McDowell Garfield Jr., grandson of the 20th President, as a chorus boy; Junior Robert Houghton Hepburn,* younger brother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, as a chorus girl...